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| Lasik Complications 2005-11-19, 5:59 pm |
| IN Germany, (due to lasik) a night vision test is required for a
drivers license, In Canada laser surgery is considered a risk factor
for drivers licenses. The UK is doing a study on night vision after
lasik. In the United States, time will tell. Of the thousands of
doctors performing lasik and impacting people's night vision, I wonder
how many more people will become dangerous behind the wheels of their
vehicles not only at night but all the time. I no longer drive at
night because of my terrible lasik results. I have a friend who has
cut out quite a bit of his night driving due to glare, I have another
friend who continues to drive at night, he just uses sun glasses.
Imagine, using sunglasses at night, how safe! The doctors are creating
a bigger pool of people who may have bad night vision, even if it is
just 1 or 2 patients. As a result all these doctors are helping create
a more dangerous nighttime driving environment for everyone! No one
will be immune to a lasik victim driver. Doctors live in the
communities in which they practice. Most doctors also have families and
loved ones. I wonder how any of them will feel if they someday lose a
loved one (a child, a grandchild) in a night time automobile crash
caused by a person who had previously had lasik? I for one do not
drive at night or the day because I no longer have 20/20 vision even
with glasses. But let me assure you, in case of an emergency I would
drive at night and heaven help the innocent. Doctors, think about it,
absolutely everyone is being put at a higher risk by those individuals
who have lasik reduced night vision and will continue driving despite
this. Instead of helping create a safer environment for your children
and loved ones, you are helping cretae a more dangerous environment.
And it will happen one day, that either a surgeon or lasik manufacturer
will be maimed or killed or lose a loved one in a car crash due to a
lasik victim behind the wheel of a car. Think about it, how will you
feel? Life has a strange way of coming back at you. I used to think
that drunk drivers were the biggest danger on the road. Unfortunately
I think I was wrong, time will tell. Lasik Complications
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| Those concerns are very legitimate. Forget the snellen chart, it does
not measure how well you see at night. Many people with bad lasik
experiences still see 20/40, 20/30, or even better but they are half
blind at night from GASH. They should make a standard eyechart to
simulate nocternal and low light visual accuracy and quality. Failing
that and you cant drive at night. You may still drive in the day if
your accuracy and quality is good enough.
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| Lasik Complications 2005-11-19, 5:59 pm |
| Do you think that the USA will really do that? Not until many, many
lives have been lost. Unfortunately the chase of the almighty dollar
will keep many of our bureaucrats and politicians blind to this
problem. I know, I used to be a bureaucrat for years who was always
fighting the system to get it to move faster for the public.
Bureacrats such as those with the FDA have to preserve their jobs and
the best way is to take a job that should take 15 minutes to do and
stretch it out to 3 days. Job preservation is a high priority for
bureacrats and politicians. Too bad for the public!
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| I think a large part of the problem is greed of the laser industry and
refractive surgeons. The FDA bearocrats were the gatekeepers who failed
to reign in and properly regulate those greedy bastards. Nice post,
Lasik Complications!
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| serebel 2005-11-20, 1:01 am |
| Aren't you people tired of spinning the same old retread garbage? Got
anything new?
Sounds like Hanson answering himself again
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| Lasik Complications 2005-11-21, 12:55 pm |
| Sorry to burst your bubble, but it it definitely not Hanson! It is
someone else whose life has been ruined by lasik.
Lasik Complications
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| serebel 2005-11-22, 1:02 am |
| So, what are you doing about it?
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| Lasik Complications 2005-11-22, 5:58 pm |
| Why bother telling you what I am doing about it, because you would
probably call me a liar anyway. You are so angry at the world! But
that is your life to deal with, and I have to deal with my life, my
eyes. We have a saying in Spanish, juzgas como vives, You judge by the
way you live. Is that why you are judging practically everyone else in
this forum a liar? Besides, with your anger and calling everyone a
liar, I am sure that you really do not care what I am doing about my
eyes and you really do not care if they are damaged. Just sit there
and get angrier, it should be good for the blood pressure. Oh, and
make sure you ask Hanson where he learned Spanish, just in case you
again say that I am Hanson, which I definitely am not!
Lasik Complications
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| serebel 2005-11-23, 1:00 am |
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Lasik Complications wrote:
> Why bother telling you what I am doing about it, because you would
> probably call me a liar anyway. You are so angry at the world! But
> that is your life to deal with, and I have to deal with my life, my
> eyes. We have a saying in Spanish, juzgas como vives, You judge by the
> way you live. Is that why you are judging practically everyone else in
> this forum a liar? Besides, with your anger and calling everyone a
> liar, I am sure that you really do not care what I am doing about my
> eyes and you really do not care if they are damaged. Just sit there
> and get angrier, it should be good for the blood pressure. Oh, and
> make sure you ask Hanson where he learned Spanish, just in case you
> again say that I am Hanson, which I definitely am not!
> Lasik Complications
In this NG you wouldn't be telling "me" what you're doing about it, you
would be also telling others with complications. Maybe giving new
ideas. Rather than just saying lasik is bad in general, which does no
one any good, give ideas on how you cope and what you are doing to fix
the problem.
I jump down the throats of the one who just throw spun statistics and
blanket statements.
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| Lasik Complications 2005-11-25, 5:57 pm |
| Anger, Anger, Anger you are truly mad at this world. I am not a
doctor. I did not create my complications. Where would you like me to
get new ideas? From a doctor's research lab that I do not have? Why
is it that you do not want others to know that when lasik can go bad,
it can really go bad. How I cope, is beyond me. What am i doing to
fix he problems, going on forums like these to see if anyone else has
found something. IF the doctors and researchers cannot find anything,
how can you expect me to find the answers? NOt even my doctor has a
clue. You like calling everyone liars, you get mad, rather furious
because those of us who have had bad complications are compassionate
enough to want to let the rest of the world to be very, very careful in
deciding whether to have lasik, to hear both sides of the story and to
you the world is still flat, not round.
Lasik Complications
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